Assaults

News about Assaults, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 3, 2015

Attica Correctional Facility guards Sean Warner, Keith Swack and Matthew Rademacher plead guilty to misdemeanor charge of misconduct in severe 2011 beating of inmate George Williams; Williams, who suffered broken legs, broken ribs, broken shoulder and other injuries, has filed civil rights lawsuit against guards, who are spared jail time from plea deal in exchange for being barred from working in prison system. MORE

Feb. 11, 2015

Hong Kong court finds Law Wan-tung guilty of abusing her Indonesian maid Erwiana Sulistyaningsih; Law faces up to seven years in prison on charges that include assault. MORE

Feb. 5, 2015

Guerrilla organization the Group of Popular Rebels claims responsibility for December shooting at Israeli embassy in Athens. MORE

Feb. 1, 2015

Dashka Slater article describes how 2013 assault on Sasha Fleischman by Richard Thomas on Oakland, Calif, bus and subsequent legal proceedings impacted lives of their families; notes that because Fleischman identifies as agender and was wearing skirt at time of assault, and because some statements by Thomas were homophobic, concerns were raised about trying Thomas as adult for hate crime. MORE

Jan. 29, 2015

Christopher Cruz, striking deal with prosecutors, pleads guilty to second-degree assault and riot for his part in 2013 episode in which swarm of motorcyclists confronted and beat up motorist driving along West Side Highway; will serve four months in jail. MORE

Jan. 23, 2015

Seemingly unremarkable life of Hamza Matrouk, Palestinian man who stabbed dozen people in Tel Aviv, highlights growing trend in Israel, in which individuals without any affiliation to organizations randomly carry out terrorist attacks using easily available weapons. MORE

Jan. 14, 2015

Judge dismisses misdemeanor assault charges against United States women's national soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo, likely clearing way for her to play in the Women's World Cup; Solo had been charged after alcohol-fueled scuffle with her half-sister and teenage nephew. MORE

Jan. 9, 2015

New York Yankees pitching prospect Ty Hensley is hospitalized after being assaulted by former college football player Anthony David Moarales in The Village, Okla. MORE

Dec. 31, 2014

Korean-American community groups call for boycott of McDonald's restaurant in Flushing, Queens, where customer James Jin Kim recorded video of an employee striking him with a broomstick, after Kim complained of slow service; footage was broadcast on television, enraging Korean-American community, even though employee was arrested for assault and punished; Kim is suing for $10 million in damages. MORE

Dec. 23, 2014

Authorities say driver of van that crashed into market in Nantes, France, injuring eleven people, planned attack in advance; driver stabbed himself several times afterwards. MORE

Dec. 18, 2014

Bobby Shmurda, rap artist whose real name is Ackquille Pollard, is arrested in Times Square as part of investigation headed by Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor for New York City into street violence, shootings and drug trafficking in Brooklyn; more than 13 people are arrested and other suspects are being sought, but charges remain unspecified. MORE

Dec. 2, 2014

Palestinian woman stabs Israeli man at hitchhiking stop in West Bank and is then shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers in the area; incident is latest in wave of attacks against Israelis. MORE

Nov. 25, 2014

Israeli police say three Arab men have been arrested on suspicion of stabbing two Israeli Jews in Jerusalem's Old City; are investigating whether incident, latest in series of violent assaults in Jerusalem, is possible terrorist attack. MORE

Nov. 20, 2014

Brooklyn girl Thaiya Spruill-Smith dies after being taken off life support; had remained in medical limbo for days after being declared brain-dead as her parents tried to reach consensus on whether her organs should be donated. MORE

Nov. 19, 2014

Terrell Smith, father of 2-year-old Thaiya Spruill-Smith, victim of assault to which her stepfather David Adams confessed, prevails in case over fate of his daughter's organs, keeping her body intact; Spruill-Smith was declared brain-dead but was kept on life support as Smith and her mother Teoka Spruill argued over whether her organs should be donated. MORE

Nov. 14, 2014

Twelve Turks arrested in Istanbul in connection with a videotaped assault on three visiting American sailors are charged with insult, inflicting injury and violating Turkey’s protest and rally law, but all are released. MORE

Nov. 13, 2014

Members of Turkish nationalist group Turkish Youth Union assault three visiting American sailors in Istanbul, hurling balloons filled with red paint at them and calling them murderers; Turkish authorities arrest 12 people in connection with assault. MORE

Nov. 11, 2014

Op-Ed article by psychiatrist Stephen Seager examines epidemic of violence in hospitals for the criminally insane, attributing trend to shocking amount of freedom granted to patients; holds state hospitals are ill-prepared to deal with dangerous and violent persons, and are restricted by an expanded notion of patients' rights that has triumphed over common sense and safety. MORE

Nov. 9, 2014

New York City prosecutor Eli Cherkasky is arrested on charges that he berated and then choked a woman at bar on East Side of Manhattan; pleads not guilty. MORE

Nov. 1, 2014

Five members of California University of Pennsylvania football team are arrested in connection with beating of 30-year old man outside a popular off-campus restaurant that left victim with severe brain injury; in wake of events, university cancels and forfeits its next home game and suspends all five players from team and school. MORE

Oct. 27, 2014

Uniformed police officer shoots and kills 29-year-old man brandishing utility knife in Flushing, Queens, after moving to arrest him for menacing workers at New York Hospital several hours earlier; encounter echoes hatchet attack in Jamaica, Queens, that left two officers wounded and suspect dead. MORE

Oct. 26, 2014

Four former football players of Archbishop McNicholas High School, private Cincinnati school, are arrested on assault charges after an episode in the freshman team locker room. MORE

Oct. 23, 2014

Thousands of Iranians flood streets of historic city of Isfahan to protest series of acid attacks on women. MORE

Oct. 22, 2014

String of violent attacks on Ukrainian political candidates highlights turmoil surrounding upcoming parliamentary elections that will complete an overhaul of country's government; attacks have further marred election already clouded by fighting in country's eastern region and expectation that voters there will be disenfranchised. MORE

Oct. 16, 2014

Connecticut State Trooper Marc O'Mara shoots and kills man who was attacking fellow passengers with a knife on a bus bound for the Mohegan Sun Casino; two passengers on bus are injured during fracas. MORE

Oct. 14, 2014

New York City police are looking for man who tossed a canister of pink smoke onto patio of Bar Pitti, an Italian restaurant in Manhattan's West Village; scene was caught on video and police are attempting to determine if it was a bizarre prank or something more malicious. MORE

Sep. 30, 2014

One man is shot and killed by a police officer in Kensington section of Brooklyn and another dies after he is stabbed at same location, in two separate incidents involving New York City police officers who fired their weapons. MORE

Sep. 25, 2014

Philip Williams, Kathryn Knott and Kevin Harrigan, suburban Philadelphia defendants charged in the beating of a gay couple during a late-night encounter on Sept 11, turn themselves in. MORE

Sep. 14, 2014

Victor H Zambrano Jr, off-duty New York State narcotics investigator, is arrested after his gun discharges during struggle with an acquaintance, injuring two bystanders and sending pedestrians running for cover. MORE

Aug. 31, 2014

George Galloway, member of British Parliament known for his vocal criticism of Israel, is released from hospital after being treated for injuries suffered after an assailant attacked him on the streets of London. MORE

Aug. 28, 2014

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, overturns hate-crimes convictions of Samuel Mullet Sr, the leader of a breakaway Amish sect, and his followers; group sowed fear in the Amish community of eastern Ohio in 2011 for a bizarre series of attacks in which they cut the hair and beards of rivals. MORE

Aug. 18, 2014

Weekend shootings throughout New York City kill two people and injure 12. MORE

Aug. 17, 2014

Ivan DeLeon of Queens is arrested on several charges, including assault, in connection with stabbing of one man and slashing of two others on subway platform at Grand Central Station. MORE

Aug. 16, 2014

Actor Alec Baldwin, no stranger to encounters with police, gives account of assault in his Manhattan apartment building in which one neighbor attacked another with a frying pan. MORE

Aug. 9, 2014

Michael Wilson Crime Scene column shares comments by Barry Baldwin, man accused of playing so-called Knockout Game in Brooklyn, in which people sucker-punch unsuspecting strangers; observes that Baldwin offers conflicting accounts of the assaults. MORE

Aug. 6, 2014

Rajesh Ranot and Sheetal Ranot of Ozone Park, Queens, are charged with assault and child endangerment over abuse of his 12-year-old daughter; girl kept silent for months for fear that her stepsiblings would be put in foster care. MORE

Jul. 24, 2014

Op-Ed article by student activist Cecily McMillan recounts experience of serving 58 days on Rikers Island after being convicted of assaulting New York City police officer during Occupy Wall Street protests at Zuccotti Park; describes culture of brutality and humiliation in which inmates are assaulted and denied basic care; calls for examination of prison system and suggests changes that could be made in short term. MORE

Jul. 18, 2014

Judge James Callahan sentences Latrez Cummings to six months in jail for participating in mob attack on Steve Utash, Detroit-area motorist who accidentally struck a boy. MORE

Jul. 14, 2014

New York Times investigation reveals culture of brutality at Rikers Island in New York, country's second-largest jail; secret internal study found that 129 inmates suffered serious injuries at hands of correction officers in 2013, with mentally ill inmates absorbing overwhelming brunt of violence; problems have remained hidden from public view due to lack of whistle blowers, poor oversight by Department of Correction and fact that guards are rarely punished for their actions (Series: Locked In). MORE

Jul. 11, 2014

Judge sentences James Davis to a year in jail for his part in an April mob attack in Detroit that left motorist Steve Utash in a coma for days; prosecutor's office says it will appeal. MORE

Jul. 10, 2014

New York City correction officers April Jackson and Tyrone Wint and Captain Moises Simancas are arrested on charges that they handcuffed and beat an inmate unconscious with a baton at Rikers Island in October 2012 and then falsified documents to cover it up; arrests are part of inquiry by city's Investigation Department into lawless conduct at the prison complex. MORE

Jul. 9, 2014

Michael Mott of Oxford, Conn, is charged with assaulting award-winning novelist Colum McCann outside New Haven hotel after author tried to help man's wife following domestic dispute. MORE

Jul. 8, 2014

Michigan judge sentences one man to prison and a second to probation for their involvement in a mob attack on a motorist Steve Utash, who accidentally struck a boy with his pickup truck in Detroit. MORE

Jul. 4, 2014

Author Colum McCann is punched in the face and knocked unconscious by a man in New Haven after intervening when he saw the man shove a woman to the ground; McCann, who was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital and later released, was in town attending a conference emphasizing empathy. MORE

Jul. 2, 2014

Michigan man John Bieniewicz dies after being punched in the head while refereeing an adult-league soccer match in suburban Detroit; Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad of Dearborn is arraigned on assault charge that could be upgraded. MORE

Jun. 26, 2014

Brutal beating of Roma youth in immigrant suburb north of Paris, highlights tensions in France's economic underclass. MORE

Jun. 24, 2014

Fourteen-year-old girl is stabbed and seriously wounded near junior high school in the Bronx, in second stabbing outside a Bronx school in less than a week. MORE

Jun. 20, 2014

Five people involved in the severe beating of white Detroit motorist Steve Utash after his truck hit a 10-year-old boy plead guilty to reduced charges, ending case that has raised concerns about racial tension and vigilantism in the bankrupt city. MORE

Jun. 19, 2014

Philip Williams, aspiring actor who works in Times Square as Spider-Man, soliciting money from tourists, is found not guilty in assault of woman during altercation after she refused to tip; Williams is still given $250 fine for harassment, due to foul language he used in front of woman's two young children. MORE

Jun. 18, 2014

French authorities say teenage Roma boy is in a coma in a Paris hospital after being abducted from a shantytown and beaten by as many as a dozen people; say assault was apparent retaliation for boy's alleged burglary attempt in nearby housing project. MORE